Fawcett's actual intention, which Fawcett named 'The Great Scheme', was however to set up a colony of spiritually-inclined settlers in Amazonia, where his wife Nina and his closest friend Harold Large, a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, had every intention of joining him.
Brian writes that, "through babyhood, the breaking waves sang their nocturne to her, till as a young child she went to her father's native Scotland to be educated." After her education she returned to Ceylon and a life of privilege.
Fawcett wrote, "A remarkable feature about the boy, not shared by his brother or sister, is a slight obliquity of his eyes." On the family's return from the military hospital at Colombo, crowds lined the route venerating the newborn.
Nina Fawcett's optimism was no doubt reinforced by the claim that she received telepathic messages from her husband as late as 1934.
Fawcett's son Jack, he was told, had broken one of the tribe's taboos, the penalty for which was death, and Fawcett died in his defense.
Brian used the more adventurous bits of his father's notes and wove them into a very entertaining and memorable 'autobiography.' The really crucial material he saved in a old trunk for posterity...
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